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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-3-3 on page I-155 in "fmtcount --- Ordinals and cardinals".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exareport}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
\sloppy % not much space available
\setcounter{chapter}{3}
\setcounter{section}{1}
\setcounter{subsection}{5}

\setlength\parindent{0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel,fmtcount}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\Ordinalstring{section} section in \ordinal{chapter}
chapter has \numberstring{subsection} subsections.
  \par   \selectlanguage{ngerman}%
\Ordinalstring{section} Abschnitt im \ordinal{chapter}[n]
Kapitel hat \numberstring{subsection}[m] Unterabschnitte.
\end{document}
